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Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/ne...rid-press.html
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Former Downing Street director of communications Alastair Campbell has said that the press is "frankly putrid in many of its elements", adding that newspapers consider coverage of the lives of celebrities as "public service
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He said that a "very, very small number of people" have "frankly besmirched the name of every journalist in the country", and criticised the industry's "shift downmarket" amid fierce competition and the rise of celebrity magazines
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Campbell said that the Press Complaints Commission has "failed" as a regulator for the media, because it is a "body that's been of the press and for the press". But he feels that getting regulation of the press right now could have positive benefits for the future of online media
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